Gensler reviews

I will let my former coworkers speak for themselves by sharing how they spoke with me, here are there quotes as I remember them. "It takes at least 6 months to be accepted by people here. This office is a beast. I don't know what it is." "Do you watch the news? So you know the state of the economy? It's the most uncertain it's ever been, even more so than during covid. You know the architecture industry is the first to lay off. I'm not saying this is a threat, but if you aren't in the office, people just forget about you. It's just not their priority to respond to your messages asking for things to do when you aren't in office." -office leader, while I'm home with covid, asking for things to do. "I don't have anything for you to work on, so you should just take some of your paid time off." - coworker (failing) to delegate project tasks "We are a hybrid office" - recruiter as I was getting hired. An email days into starting explained the office would soon go back to full time in office without any days allowed to work from home. New hires are not allowed to work from home. "Put your designer cap on and figure it out"- senior designer, I was asking for guidance on something new to me. "Don't expect to learn software on the job here. X spent his evenings staying late to learn new software" - leadership "You have to be really loud and extroverted to succeed in this office. You can't be quiet or introverted here." - leadership

Chicago office is in decline. New office leadership have spent millions on incremental changes to the office while business has declined resulting in layoffs. Office leadership is unusually disengaged from the people they should be leading (very counter to the Gensler culture) After several non-sensical and confusing re-orgs + a round of layoffs, it's time for firmwide leadership to step in and get this once-great office back on track.